EU worried about Facebook’s metaverse
Vestager wants to know more so she can regulate it
European Union authorities are a little worried about Facebook’s new metaverse plans and want to understand it better so they can regulate it.
EU might not have enough cash to sort out chip shortage
Public funding set to suffer
The EU is planning to divert funding on public projects to highly profitable chip companies so that they will set up chip plants in the bloc.
Intel beats EU
Threw out billion euro antitrust fine
Chipmaker Intel scored a decisive legal victory Wednesday in a long-running battle against European Union competition watchdogs after a court reversed itself and threw out a billion euro antitrust fine issued more than a decade ago.
EU about to force Big Content to police sites better
New restrictions
The European Union is close to passing legislation that could transform the way major technology companies operate and force them to police content on their platforms more aggressively.
EU mulls setting up its own DNS
Too much consolidation around non-EU operators
The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free.
Facebook insists that US provides enough data protection
It can be trusted with Euro data
Despite the European Union's highest court twice declaring that the United States does not offer sufficient protection for Europeans' data from American national security agencies, the social media giant's lawyers continue to disagree.
Indiscriminate mass surveillance is incompatible with EU law
Bloc’s highest court warns
EU member state hopes that they can create huge databases to spy on their citizens in the name of defence have received a kick in the nadgers by the bloc’s top court.
US and EU must avoid chip subsidy race
EU Competition Commissioner warns of money for nothing and your chips for free
The United States and the European Union must avoid a subsidy race as they rush to support semiconductor production amid a global chip shortage, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said.
Either do what we tell you or user security will suffer
Apple warns the EU
Apple software boss Craig Ferengi Federighi took the stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon to push Apple’s line that reducing its monopoly powers over its app store would result in less security for EU users.
EU set to discipline Big Tech
Also set to rain on their clouds
Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.